We will meet at the South Yorkshire Energy Centre at 5.25 tonight for the Energy Training.
http://www.syec.co.uk/
Alternatively, meet me at the Old Junior School at 4.50 if you would like to walk up there together.
If you have any queries, please give me a call 0114 2508384, thanks.
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Showing posts with label actions. Show all posts
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Art Trail: Call for facilitators
We are hosting Sheffield Hallam Student Volunteers next month. Their brief will be to create an art trail throughout sharrow...
The workshops will be held on Friday 19th Feb and Friday 26th Feb from 12.30pm... We are currently looking for volunteers to help facilitate...
Our aims for the project are that:
1. The students find out more about the area- and therefore may be more likely to come here/ think more positively about what sharrow has to offer...
2. They draw people who live, work and play in sharrows attention to aspects of sharrow that excite them/inspire them and/or are critical of things- so perhaps comment on the way space is used/ link places together...
3. They have to talk to local businesses/ people at the potential locations of the signs and so converstaions start and negotioations start... people start talking about the area and what is distinctive/ important
3. We create a map of their signs and distribute it around schools/ shops/ local people/ students and get poeple walking aorund at looking at sharrow more generally...
We need facilitators for the two workshops- the first would be presenting the area/ themes in the brief and going for a walk around with the students, provoking them, getting then to look at/ know the area better... then help them to come back and discuss ideas for their groups signs... and begin to design them...
The second workshop would be the making of the signs... we have some bought materials as we have fairly substantial pot of money (about £400) and also will hope to salvage materials etc...
The students could also have a small budget per group (from hallam) of about £40 to buy extras if they needed them...
We are expecting 40-50 students to attend and i thought that they could form 8 groups of 5 students (two groups per theme and area- 'create'- the john street triangle... 'play'- the parks and schools, 'gather'... the community buildings (inc sufc!) and 'trade'- london road area)...
I think it is important for the facilitators to push with how the students would interpret these themes... and get them to be as creative as possible... (so play could be about lots of things- a full page of defintions according to the online dictionary- i like Quick, often irregular movement or action, especially of light or color: the play of color on iridescent feathers.)
so please drop me a line at sharrow_action@hotmail.com if you might like to be involved...
The workshops will be held on Friday 19th Feb and Friday 26th Feb from 12.30pm... We are currently looking for volunteers to help facilitate...
Our aims for the project are that:
1. The students find out more about the area- and therefore may be more likely to come here/ think more positively about what sharrow has to offer...
2. They draw people who live, work and play in sharrows attention to aspects of sharrow that excite them/inspire them and/or are critical of things- so perhaps comment on the way space is used/ link places together...
3. They have to talk to local businesses/ people at the potential locations of the signs and so converstaions start and negotioations start... people start talking about the area and what is distinctive/ important
3. We create a map of their signs and distribute it around schools/ shops/ local people/ students and get poeple walking aorund at looking at sharrow more generally...
We need facilitators for the two workshops- the first would be presenting the area/ themes in the brief and going for a walk around with the students, provoking them, getting then to look at/ know the area better... then help them to come back and discuss ideas for their groups signs... and begin to design them...
The second workshop would be the making of the signs... we have some bought materials as we have fairly substantial pot of money (about £400) and also will hope to salvage materials etc...
The students could also have a small budget per group (from hallam) of about £40 to buy extras if they needed them...
We are expecting 40-50 students to attend and i thought that they could form 8 groups of 5 students (two groups per theme and area- 'create'- the john street triangle... 'play'- the parks and schools, 'gather'... the community buildings (inc sufc!) and 'trade'- london road area)...
I think it is important for the facilitators to push with how the students would interpret these themes... and get them to be as creative as possible... (so play could be about lots of things- a full page of defintions according to the online dictionary- i like Quick, often irregular movement or action, especially of light or color: the play of color on iridescent feathers.)
so please drop me a line at sharrow_action@hotmail.com if you might like to be involved...
Monday, 4 January 2010
Action Group Events in January and February
Saturday 9th January 10am-1pm: Empty Shops and Artists Funding Workshop meet at the OJS
Saturday 16th January 10-1pm: Lloyds Corner Design Workshop at Action Group HQ, the OJS
Wednesday 27th January 5.30pm: South Yorkshire Energy Centre Training, meet at the centre, 5.30pm
Wednesday 24th February: Built Environment and Landscape Students Presentations and Action Group Social. At 6.00pm at the Action Group HQ, the OJS
Please contact me on sharrow_action@hotmail.com for more details about any of the above events. There are also more to come, watch this space!
Saturday 16th January 10-1pm: Lloyds Corner Design Workshop at Action Group HQ, the OJS
Wednesday 27th January 5.30pm: South Yorkshire Energy Centre Training, meet at the centre, 5.30pm
Wednesday 24th February: Built Environment and Landscape Students Presentations and Action Group Social. At 6.00pm at the Action Group HQ, the OJS
Please contact me on sharrow_action@hotmail.com for more details about any of the above events. There are also more to come, watch this space!
Monday, 2 November 2009
Next Meeting: Treasure Hunt
In order to finalise the treasure hunt and plan our stall/ promotion strategy lets meet on...
Tuesday 10th November at 6.00pm at Action Group HQ, The Old Junior School, Southview Road.
Please RSVP.
Tuesday 10th November at 6.00pm at Action Group HQ, The Old Junior School, Southview Road.
Please RSVP.
Monday, 26 October 2009
Next Meeting: Treasure Hunt
Our next meeting to make a series of clues for the treasure hunt will be on Saturday 31st October at 10am... It will be held in the Distinctive Sharrow Action group room at the Old junior school. Please come along to help make clues...Entry to the treasure hunt will be promoted at the Winter market and forms will also be available to download from the Sharrow Community forum Website and this blog. The prize for the winner will be a signed SUFC Shirt!
Please contact julia@sharrowcf.org.uk for more details...
Please RSVP for this Saturday's meeting
Hallam Volunteers?
We have very kindly had the offer of some volunteers from sheffield hallam univeristy for a day of intense creative project work. It would be great to get an exciting self-contained DS Action Group project for them to be involved with... please offer your suggestions here, (so far i have recived the following):
Dear Julia> > What a good idea and lots of potential. It might be useful to remain focus and> try to pursue some of the idea of our last meeting. How about to produce> robust noticable objects to position in strategic positions in Sharrow> identifying the potential sites for intervention and requesting people's ideas,> opinion about the site. A sort of letter box. This could be combined with the> art trail and the treasure hunt we talked about.> > Just an idea...> > See you soon> > Laurence
Dear Julia> > What a good idea and lots of potential. It might be useful to remain focus and> try to pursue some of the idea of our last meeting. How about to produce> robust noticable objects to position in strategic positions in Sharrow> identifying the potential sites for intervention and requesting people's ideas,> opinion about the site. A sort of letter box. This could be combined with the> art trail and the treasure hunt we talked about.> > Just an idea...> > See you soon> > Laurence
Monday, 5 October 2009
Housewarming
The Distinctive Sharrow Housewarming on Wednesday 23rd September was a really fun evening where we chatted, found out about each other, collected people's ideas and let people know about the projects which we have been involved in...
Our displays told people about:
1. Distinctive Sharrow / The Distinctive Sharrow Toolkit
2. The Action Group
3. Our future plans
4. The four key projects: i. flags, ii. signs (the word on the street), iii. Lloyds corner, iv. empty shops
During the evening we asked people to add to:
1. The display about people of Sharrow (by telling us something about themselves or their relationship with Sharrow and chalk in on a board and have their portrait taken)
2. A map of Sharrow painted on the wall (telling us a project idea, something we should know about Sharrow, or something that inspires them about Sharrow)
3. A display of exciting ideas, ways to act, art, architecture, landscape or design projects they love. (either by making a card or chalking on the wall)
The photos below give a glimpse of some of the input/ ideas that came back. A comprehensive collation of this will be posted on the blog and this will go on to inspire our agenda for the next few months.
We have also had an expression of interest from a few new members and hope they are still keen to be involved- a meeting will be confirmed asap to welcome them into the group. Watch this space!
Our displays told people about:
1. Distinctive Sharrow / The Distinctive Sharrow Toolkit
2. The Action Group
3. Our future plans
4. The four key projects: i. flags, ii. signs (the word on the street), iii. Lloyds corner, iv. empty shops
During the evening we asked people to add to:
1. The display about people of Sharrow (by telling us something about themselves or their relationship with Sharrow and chalk in on a board and have their portrait taken)
2. A map of Sharrow painted on the wall (telling us a project idea, something we should know about Sharrow, or something that inspires them about Sharrow)
3. A display of exciting ideas, ways to act, art, architecture, landscape or design projects they love. (either by making a card or chalking on the wall)
The photos below give a glimpse of some of the input/ ideas that came back. A comprehensive collation of this will be posted on the blog and this will go on to inspire our agenda for the next few months.
We have also had an expression of interest from a few new members and hope they are still keen to be involved- a meeting will be confirmed asap to welcome them into the group. Watch this space!
Monday, 17 August 2009
Room Painting and design of displays: DS HQ
We had a painting day on Saturday, decorating the new DS Action Group HQ... Thanks to everyone who helped...and as you can see have now painted a map of Sharrow on the wall... we hope to use this to add information about DS Action group and others' projects in the neighbourhood. Hopefully as we begin to do more spontaneous projects these can also be mapped.There is still some painting to do- largely of the woodwork, please contact me if you may be able to spare a couple of hours to help.
We also need to design displays for our housewarming event which is fast approaching. It has been discussed that this will include information about our projects, students work, planning applications, community building projects and inspirational ideas from others... If you would like to be involved or have any ideas for this it would be much appreciated.
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Room painting day: Saturday 15th August
Room painting will be a drop-in between 10am and 4pm on Saturday 15th August 2009 with lunch provided around 12.30pm. Please come along!
Please find below my draft layout for the room (if we share with Grow Sheffield). Comments welcome. Click on the image to enlarge it- alternatively email julia@sharrowcf.org.uk for a copy.
Unfortunately Stokes currently do not have any paint available for donation... Has anyone had any luck on freecycle, either in terms of paint or any other items we require?
Unfortunately Stokes currently do not have any paint available for donation... Has anyone had any luck on freecycle, either in terms of paint or any other items we require?
Monday, 27 July 2009
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Empty Shops: Letters to landlords
I have now sent out the above letter to landlords for vacant retail units on London Road and Abbeydale Road. We will contact them early next week to try to confirm the scale of the proposed festival. It is hoped that once the number of units is ascertained we can really get going!
Monday, 20 July 2009
Housewarming
Below is a list of people and groups that we have discussed inviting to our housewarming event on 23rd September 2009. Please add anyone (groups and/or individuals) that are missing to the list...
- Sharrow Action Group extended mailing list
-Sheffield Civic Trust
-Sheffield City Council planners
- Abbeydale Communities Together
- Nether Edge neighbourhood Group
-Broomhall Forum
-Grow Sheffield
-Encounters
-SUFI Centre planning group
- Portland Works businesses
-CAN
-Sharrow Forum
-Lansdowne TARA
-Sheffield University landscape students
- Sam Vardy, Doina Petrescu, Renata Tyszczuk, Florian Kossak, and Carolyn Butterworth + others? from Sheffield Univeristy Architecture Department
-Who else?... either post, comment or email asap...
I will hopefully design an invitation soon in order to mail out early august...(if you would be happy to help with this, please drop me a line!)...
- Sharrow Action Group extended mailing list
-Sheffield Civic Trust
-Sheffield City Council planners
- Abbeydale Communities Together
- Nether Edge neighbourhood Group
-Broomhall Forum
-Grow Sheffield
-Encounters
-SUFI Centre planning group
- Portland Works businesses
-CAN
-Sharrow Forum
-Lansdowne TARA
-Sheffield University landscape students
- Sam Vardy, Doina Petrescu, Renata Tyszczuk, Florian Kossak, and Carolyn Butterworth + others? from Sheffield Univeristy Architecture Department
-Who else?... either post, comment or email asap...
I will hopefully design an invitation soon in order to mail out early august...(if you would be happy to help with this, please drop me a line!)...
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Monday, 6 April 2009
welcome to sharrow lanterns
...lantern anagrams made from the letters spelling out 'WELCOME TO SHARROW'!
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